Conflicts of interest, potential Constitutional violations and other complications related to his business...we're just getting started. No way Trump makes it four years.

Countries where Trump does business are not hit by new travel restrictions

The seven nations targeted for new visitation restrictions by President Trump on Friday all have something in common: They are places he does not appear to have any business interests.

The executive order he signed Friday bars all entry for the next 90 days by travelers from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya. Excluded from the lists are several majority-Muslim nations where the Trump Organization is active and which in some cases have also faced troublesome issues with terrorism.

According to the text of the order, the restriction applies to countries that have already been excluded from programs allowing people to travel to the United States without a visa because of concerns over terrorism. Hewing closely to nations already named as terrorism concerns elsewhere in law might have allowed the White House to avoid angering some more powerful and wealthy majority Muslim allies, such as Egypt.

But without divesting from his company, as bipartisan ethics ­experts had advised, Trump is now facing questions about whether he designed the new rules with his own business at least partly in mind.

“He needs to sell his businesses outside his family and place the assets in a blind trust, otherwise every decision he makes people are going to question if he’s making the decision in the interests of the American people or his own bottom line,” said Jordan Libowitz, the spokesman for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal watchdog group. The group has filed a lawsuit arguing that Trump is already in violation of a constitutional provision barring federal officials from accepting payments from foreign officials.

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Our courts don't work that quickly, so I'm not sure what your point is.

There are already lawsuits being filed. But many law scholars are saying it is, as well as members from both sides of the aisle (And Mike Pence himself not long ago.)

I don't understand why Trump is doing this with Mexico. What's the point? Nothing good will come from it. Not for Americans, and not for Mexicans. It's  destructive on many different levels.

More than anything it shows what kind of man Trump is. He swings down, never up, like a bully. Our trade deficit with China is roughly 370 billion. Mexico by comparison is 58 billion. Do you think he's going to pull this kind of shit with China? (Although he's certainly dumb enough to) Of course he won't, because China will eat our fucking lunch if he tries anything like this. They have the ability to wreck us. Instead he picks a poor country to go after, using lies about illegal immigration and ignoring much larger trade deficits with other countries while addressing his rubes.

If Trump really continues down this path he'll ultimately hurt their economy (and possibly ours) which would then send Mexicans over here looking for work anyway. Such a brilliant man, and an astute diplomat!

This is what happens when you get all your "news" from right wing shit sites.

AP FACT CHECK: No proof of mass vote fraud in Michigan

DETROIT (AP) — A widely shared story that claimed in headlines that Michigan had mass Democratic voter fraud and that more than half of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Detroit vote faces disqualification is false. State election officials say there is no proof to back up either claim.

The story posted by Higgins News Network on Dec. 6 is headlined: "Michigan Recount: Over 1/2 of Hillary Clinton's Detroit Vote Faces Disqualification," with an updated headline on Dec. 7: "Michigan Recount Halted After Mass Voter Fraud Discovery," with a subhead: "Federal Judge Officially Stops Michigan Recount After Discovery of Widespread Democrat Vote Fraud."

The claim comes from reports that many precincts in Detroit — which Clinton won with about 95 percent of the vote over President-elect Donald Trump — could not be recounted because the number of ballots stored in a sealed container on election night due to scanning machine malfunctions did not match the number of voter names recorded in a poll book.

In such cases, election night totals stand in the recount and are not disqualified.

It is not uncommon for there to be slight inconsistencies between the number of stored ballots and the number of voter names in a poll book, typically due to human error, but Michigan's elections bureau has ordered an investigation into discrepancies in about 20 of Detroit's 490 precincts.

Fred Woodhams, a spokesman for the Republican secretary of state, has said the differences would not have affected Trump's narrow victory over Clinton in the state.

Clinton cut into Trump's 10,704-vote win by only 102 votes during Michigan's recount, which covered more than 40 percent of the statewide vote before courts stopped it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-ap-fa … an-2016-12

The overwhelming majority of scientists around the world...yes.